Pre-College Education

IEEE Region 4 MeetingJan 31 – Feb 1, 2004

Don C. Bramlett, PE, SMIEEEIEEE Region 4 East Area ChairSoutheastern Michigan Section

Pre-College Education

Any IEEE Section can have a Pre-College Education Committee and Program

It does not matter where the Section is, how large/small the Section is in area, how many members the Section has, how many officers the Section has, or how active the Section technical program/professional programs are

Pre-College Education

IEEE organizational support:

• IEEE-USA– Pre-College Education Committee

www.ieeeusa.org/committees/PEC/

• IEEE Region 4– Ken Reid, reid@ieee.org

• IEEE Education Activities Board– Pre-College Education Coordinating Committee

www.ieee.org/organizations/eab/pecc/

Pre-College Education

Southeastern Michigan Section:www.ieee-sem.org/ (ongoing Section involvement)

• Michigan Regional Future City Competition www.esd.org/future_city.htm– (Mentors, IEEE Special Award Judges, Competition Judges)

• National Engineer Week Discover E Program www.eweek.org/site/DiscoverE/– (Career Day like presentations, Section provides materials)

• Science and Engineering Fair of Metropolitan Detroit www.sefmd.org – (IEEE Special Awards Judges, General Category Judges)

Pre-College EducationMany nationwide Pre-College Education Programs:

• MATHCOUNTS (NSPE) (middle school) www.mathcounts.org/

• National Engineers Week (NEW)– Discover E Program (K-12) www.eweek.org/site/DiscoverE/

• Future City Competition (NEW committee) (middle school) www.futurecity.org

• The Junior Engineering Technical Society (JETS) National Engineering Design Competition (NEDC) (high school) www.jets.org/programs/nedc.cfm

• Science Olympiad (middle school) www.scienceolympiad.org

• TEAMS (Test for Engineering Aptitude, Mathematics & Science) (JETS) (high school) www.jets.org/programs/teams.cfm

• A World in Motion – Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) (K-12) www.sae.org/foundation/awim/

Pre-College EducationMany nationwide Pre-College Education Programs:

• FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition (high school) www.usfirst.org/robotics

• FIRST Lego League (elementary & middle school) www.usfirst.org/programs/jrobtcs/flego.htm

• Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day (NEW committee) www.eweek.org/site/News/Eweek/girlsday.shtml

• ZOOM into Engineering (NEW committee) www.eweek.org/site/Engineers/zoom.shtml

• etc

Pre-College EducationMany local Pre-College Education Programs:

• Robofest (Lawrence Technological University – Southeastern Michigan Section) (5th – 12 grades) www.robofest.net

• Young Scholars (Central Indiana Section) (middle & high school)

• Robot Challenge (Baltimore Section) (9th – 11th grades) www.robotchallenge.com

• Engineers Day Project (Cedar Rapids Section) (open attendance)

• Science Fairs

• etc